Improvement in pads for carpets



H..M. SMALL. Pad for Carpets.

No. 222,605. PatentedDec. 16,1879.

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UNITED STATES PA OFFICE- JHERBERT M. SMALL, OF BALDWINSVILLE,MASSACHUSETTS;

IMPROVEMENT IN PADS FOR CAI RPETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,605, dated December16, 1879; application filed October 9, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that I, HERBERT M. SMALL, of Baldwinsville, of the town ofTempleton, of the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Pads for Carpets; and I dohereby declare the same to be described in the following specificationand represented in the accompanying drawing, which is a transversesection of one of .my improved carpet-pads.

In manufacturing it, as shown, I employ three layers, A B O, of paper,one of which, (J, I place between the others, A B, and by paste or.cement alternately cement itto them, as shown at a b c d 6, so as toform between the two outer layers, A B, a series of insulated pockets orreceptacles for holding paddings f, of excelsior or other suitable inaterial.

The two layers or sheets A B, I usually join or paste together at theirnext adjacent edges, preferring to fold one sheet, A, upon itself, neareach of its edges, and lap thefolded parts on the other sheet, and fixthereto the laps by paste or cement, all being as represented.

I would remark that in thus making the padding-holder it becomescomposed of a flat tube of paper and an interposed partition of likematerial connected atintervals alternately to opposite sides of thetube, so as to form in the tube a series of separate pockets orreceptacles extending lengthwise or breadthwise of the tube, and beingto hold a series of paddings or stuffings and keep them apart from oneanother.

Instead of joining the outer sheets at .their edges they maybe theredisconnected, though each may be connected at intervals with theintermediate sheet or layer, in manner as described.

To prevent the padding from moving lengthwise in its pocket they may beconnected by a narrow layerof cement laid on the middle of the bottom ofthe pocket throughout its length.

By so making a carpet-pad, or carpet-lining, as itis usallytermed incommerce, lam enabled to keep the padding equally distributed within thecase of holder, or prevent the padding from moving therein and packingtoo much in one or more places. Furthermore, by means of the interveningsheet, G, connected to the sheets A B alternately, as shown, the saidsheets A B are preserved to advantage from separating or moving too farapart from each other, and the fabric or pad is rendered stronger andbetter in other repects than it would be if made with two sheets withoutany connection-sheet interposed between and fixed to them at intervals,as set forth.

I claim as my invention as follows:

1. As an improved manufacture, a carpetpad composed of a series offibrous paddings and three layers of sheet material or paper, arrangedas set forth, and having the intermediate layer fixed or cemented to theothers i or outer layers at intervals, substantially as described, so asto form separate pockets or receptacles for receiving the paddin gs, asspeci- 2. A carpet-pad padding-holder composed of the three layers ofpaper or sheetmaterial. and having the intermediate layer connected atintervals or alternately to the outer or other layers, substantially asdescribed, so as to form between them a series of separate poek- 4. Asan improved manufacture, a carpet-y pad composed of a'series 0t fibrouspaddings and three layers of sheet material or paper, arranged as setforth, and not onlyhaving the intermediate layer fixed or cemented tothe others or outer layers at intervals, substantially as described, soas to form separate pockets or receptacles for holdingthe paddings, buthaving each of the paddings secured lengthwise to its pockets by anarrow layer of cement, as set forth.

HERBERTllI. SMALL. Witnesses W. E. PEARSON, CHAS. M. HUNT.

